When I was asked to contribute to this blog series about my experience at the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Byzantium – Bridge…

Inspired by our “Memory of Human Kind: Stories from the Ottoman Manuscripts” exhibition, in collaboration with Trendeki Yabancı magazine we will be publishing 6…

We are presenting The Four-Legged Municipality: Street Dogs of İstanbul, an exhibition that sheds light upon the adventure of street dogs, an integral part of İstanbul’s daily life in…

The Ottoman administration’s initiatives -based on Western models- to “modernize” the traditional organic urban fabric which had developed in the Empire’s capital over the centuries can be…

An individual that speaks with his own voice and not the voice of others. An individual that cast asides the crutches and stands tall,…

Chamber Talk Industrial Revolution in Daily Life: Society and Technology from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic Candan Sezgin Thursday 28th February During the…

Nazimî Yaver Yenal (1904-1987), a unique personality of 20th-century Turkish architecture, is a typical representative of the early Republic generation that epitomized idealist principles.…

The exhibition Mindful Seed Speaking Soil: Village Institutes of the Republic 1940-1954, organized by the collaborative efforts of the İstanbul Research Institute and İsmail Hakkı Tonguç…

İstanbul Research Institute presents the exhibition “An Ottoman Building in the Early Republican Era: The Şişli Mosque” with a selection from Suna and İnan…

The Republic stepped beyond the threshold of the “old life” in which the ruler and the ruled were utterly estranged and constituted two opposite…